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Best One Year Poems

Below are the all-time best One Year poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of one year poems written by PoetrySoup members


Premium Member One Year Ago
Well, it has been one year since I joined Poetry Soup.
I smile now, because I have met this wonderfully diverse group.

August 7th, 2013 was a...

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Categories: one year, anniversary, appreciation, friendship, inspiration,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member Sophie
Sophie Scholl was raised a Christian in a Lutheran family
Born in the town of Forchtenberg in south west Germany
For standing defiant against evil with her...

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Categories: one year, death, girl, inspirational, rose,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Know Yourself
For years before the narrow windows of my senses
                ...

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Categories: one year, god, introspection, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Ollyver, My Beloved
"i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go . . . "
    ...

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Categories: one year, love,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Christmas in Paradise
One year,  over the ocean, Santa veered  off course
His reindeer were battling a hurricane  force. 
As the sleigh went  spinning and spiraling around,
 an  island appeared far below on the ground,
dotted with palms...

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Categories: one year, christmas, fun,
Form: Rhyme



Premium Member You Never Know Till You Get To Know
One dark night a saucer crashed;
the military quickly cleaned up the trash.
In the distance, what they didn’t see;
a thin, white face between the trees.

Once all...

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Categories: one year, funny, humor, humorous, imagination,
Form: Light Verse
Premium Member Indelible
I was seventeen, had one year left of high school and a boyfriend I didn't even love. It was the end of summer, and I...

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Categories: one year, happiness, high school, lost
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Each Year Goes Round - For New Year Theme
"Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us." - ...

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Categories: one year, new year,
Form: Sonnet
Premium Member Behind the Yellow Door
Looking out at the old oak  tree in my front yard today, I see myself as she is, stripped of all my former beauty...

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Categories: one year, family, house, life,
Form: Personification
Within Ripples
Every year from spring through fall, if you peered between the cattails you could see the swans in the center of the pond, head to...

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Categories: one year, bird,
Form: Haibun
Premium Member Good Morning, Starshine
Good Morning, Starshine

“Good morning, Starshine,” each dawn he would greet
As from feather pillows our eyes would meet

Perhaps you can imagine my surprise
When he was gone...

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Categories: one year, happinessme,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member I Am a Meadowlark
When I first flew the nest, my spirits were low; 
how my world has changed from one year ago. 
Now fully fledged, I spread open...

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Categories: one year, bird, me, writing,
Form: Personification
Premium Member Serendipity
had I woken with that headache 
then I would have stayed in bed
but because I felt much better
I got up for work instead.

had I got...

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Categories: one year, humorous, life, love,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Skinny Dipping In Bygone Years
With her first words she mesmerized his soul,
Of rose water and lavender was her aroma,
Her tip tap of her fairy tale walk was majestic,
A woman...

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Categories: one year, marriage,
Form: Narrative
Premium Member Where Ivory Perpetual Romance Prevails
He came to me with skin like ivory,
although his eyes and hair were dark as night.
He came with one year past his eighteenth year.
I, with...

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Categories: one year, romantic love,
Form: Free verse

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